Hormones

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more - Susannah Cahalan

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Stop Calling Women Hormonal

My son Jack was born in London a month before his due date. The pediatrician said he was fine and we could go home.

A few minutes later another doctor came in and asked to draw blood to try to figure out why Jack was premature. I refused, because we had already been given the go-ahead to leave. I heard the doctor tell the nurses to mark in my medical record, “Mother refuses treatment for her son.”

“I’m not refusing treatment! I’m refusing a needless test!” I said from my bed.

To which she mumbled, “Write down, ‘Mother is hormonal.’”

And so began my rant. I stormed out of my room, dressed only in my husband’s white T-shirt and nestling my 12-hour-old son to my…

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